Differences and Similarities in Insular and Temporal Pole MRI Gray Matter Volume Abnormalities in First-Episode Schizophrenia and Affective Psychosis
Author(s) -
Kiyoto Kasai,
Martha E. Shenton,
Dean F. Salisbury,
Toshiaki Onitsuka,
Sarah Toner,
Deborah YurgelunTodd,
Ron Kikinis,
Ferenc A. Jólesz,
Robert W. McCarley
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
archives of general psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3636
pISSN - 0003-990X
DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.60.11.1069
Subject(s) - psychosis , psychology , magnetic resonance imaging , temporal lobe , grey matter , temporal cortex , neuroscience , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , audiology , white matter , medicine , radiology , epilepsy
Whether psychoses associated with schizophrenia and affective disorder represent manifestations of different disorders or the same disorder is an important but unresolved question in psychiatry. Results of previous volumetric magnetic resonance imaging investigations indicate that gray matter volume reductions in neocortical regions may be specific to schizophrenia.
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